Hello Duncan, On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Duncan de Wet <duncandewet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Manpages version 3.44-0ubuntu1 distribution Linux Mint 15. > > In man 7 ascii, there is the following sentence: > >> Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the Linux default character set) >> contain ASCII as their lower half. > > Locales now use UTF-8 by default. This sentence should probably be > changed to something explaining how UTF-8 works, like: > >> Many 8-bit codes contain ASCII as their lower half. The Linux default >> character set, UTF-8, fits thousands of characters through non-ASCII >> characters using more than one upper-half byte. > > Or something like that, I'm no expert. I agree that something should be fixed, but simplest I think is to remove mention of 8859-1 as the default. There is already a utf-8(7) page that explains UTF-8 at some length. I applied the patch below, and I'll also add utf-8(7) under SEE ALSO. Cheers, Michael diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7 index 5f064c1..88979dc 100644 --- a/man7/ascii.7 +++ b/man7/ascii.7 @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal .SH DESCRIPTION ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a 7-bit code. -Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the -Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half. +Many 8-bit codes (e.g., ISO 8859-1) contain ASCII as their lower half. The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646. .LP The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
